Kid Icarus

What can I say, failure has done wonders for your humility.

Interesting to see how other people view that like, because I think of it the other way, as in Isak makes Murphy's job so much easier for him. The two of them have definitely got an understanding with each other that Isak doesn't have with Gordon as well.

Schadenfreude isn't weird, it's natural and cool. Man United ruined my childhood and the arrogant, Terry Christian types in its fanbase (not a sly dig Froggy) are the absolute worst whenever they're doing well. So I'll openly admit that I want to squeeze every drop out of them being shit for as long as I possibly can, because it's part of what being a football fan is all about.

Definite A at the moment, to the extent that it makes Tonali's A- look too high.

Surprised we haven't had any 'wHy ArE yOu So MaD aBoUt It?' comments on this from our resident plastics.

Another one that's a few different grades depending on the circumstances and which club he's at. C, D, or E. For us I think he can only be a D for the moment unless we got a good fee for him.

I wouldn't say so. It's also being made more of than it was imo.

We were also flying and had a full squad available. This was my explanation then. With hindsight I'd snap your hand off for Spurs, partly because the injuries and suspensions would probably stop us being favourites.

Expected him to not be always available for a year after he was 'back' tbh, but another injury and another operation ffs.

The situation then was very different to what it is now like.

Areet! I'm definitely coming even if it's just me. It'll be a max of 3 of us but I'll let you know as soon as I can. Feel free to PM me what I owe you and I'll send it over. Thanks so much for organising all of this like.

I'd argue they've looked ordinary in the league as well. Can't knock them for staying consistent, but literally everyone else in the league that could challenge them fell off at the same time.

I can't wait for this Liverpool team to get found out like, they're really not very good and it's absolutely mad that they're in this position.

Forest 1 v 2 Man City Brighton 2 v 1 Fulham Palace 2 v 0 Ipswich Liverpool 3 v 0 Southamtpon Brentford 2 v 2 Villa Wolves 1 v 1 Everton Chelsea 3 v 1 Leicester Spurs 2 v 1 Bournemouth Man United 1 v 2 Arsenal West Ham 2 v 0 Newcastle

I don't think so, but I do think there's an element of right player wrong time about him. Ideally you want a player like Barnes to come in as more of a finishing touch when you need an impact sub to complement what you already have - like Liverpool got with Jota and Arsenal got with Trossard. £40m on that type of player when you still need a starting RW and RCB and back up CF might not have been the best allocation of resources with the huge benefit of hindsight.

I usually go for the 'N-O search test' and it's not good reading like. He's a homer ref to the absolute extreme from what I remember. No idea what that looks like at a neutral venue.

It's a neutral venue anyway so not away, but even then we've had plenty of away performances this season that fly in the face of this perception of it being poor. If anything I think we've been arguably better away than at home. Arsenal, Man United, Spurs, Forest, Ipswich, Southampton. Everton where we should have got all 3 points too. Then matches where we've ground out results despite not playing well, like Wolves, Palace, Bournemouth, and matches where we should have done better. The away matches where we really, really let ourselves down isn't that long, it's basically Fulham, Brentford, Man City, Liverpool.

Grow several pairs man you absolute flannels. Jesus wept.

MOTM performance against Liverpool's only truly huge threat as well. At least we're firmly underdogs now, albeit I'm not at the stage of willingly giving up in a fucking cup final that others seem to be.

It'll have to be Krafth and Livramento, with Joelinton and Willock doing their dovetailing. Trippier on towards the end if we're dominating possession/need to attack.

TBG has a lot to answer for.

Same applies from when we did this a few months ago. In situations like this D is actually higher than C imo. Barnes is a specialist player that works best as an impact sub (D) but can potentially do that at a higher level (B) than he would play as a starter (C). C seems fair but I don't think it suits the type of player he is at all.

Bodes well. Still, at least there'll be no home team so can't do his usual.

Good move for everyone. The club, the player, his agent, those who like seeing people who write players off ending up with egg on their face again. Everyone wins.

Let me put this in a format that I think will make things clearer.